Here's some claims often made people about crime, which are easily to disprove. Many of them SEEM counterintuitive to many people on both sides of the aisle:
Claim: The majority of murder is black on black.
Fact: According to the FBI, the number of White on White murders is significantly higher:
White on White: 2,509
Black on Black: 2,245
White on Black: 189
Black on White: 409
H/L* on White : 532
H/L on Black : 76
Black on H/L : 87
* Hispanic/Latino
Black on Black Crime
Claim: Europe has LESS violence because it's more homogenous.
Fact: Many nations that are more diverse are much less violent than America.
Diversity
Examples are:
Indonesia
Israel
Chile
Spain
Jordan
Macedonia
Switzerland
Canada
Liberia
Not good enough, well what about America itself? It was obviously less diverse in the 1960's, 70's and 80's ergo the murder rate should've been proportionally lower, right?
Absolutely wrong.
Murder rate now: 4.7
Murder rate* in the 1960's: 5.5
Murder rate in the 1970's: 9.1
Murder rate in the 1980's: 8.7
*averaged
Historical murder rates
Claim: Poor people kill more people than rich people
Fact: When looking at street crime, yes, but when looking at the issue more holistically, the answer is a resounding no.
Basic facts: US business owner negligence kills at least 50-55K Americans a year. the average salary of US (small) business owners is over 70K, while the average worker salary is 50K. (Note: Averaging in corporate owners salaries would raise this number significantly.)
In other words, the people responsible for killing 50-55K workers a year are earning on average 70K a year, which is close to 50% above the average salary in America.
That means that US workers are being killed by their jobs at a rate 3.5X that of the street crime murder rate. Or, put another way the US murder rate for employees is about 16.45, which is higher than the street crime murder rate of almost every African country.
Oh and hey, 90%+ of US businesses are owned by White people.
Data
Data - another source